Dr. Erin Baxter will present “Seen and Unseen: An Historic Reinterpretation of the Great Kiva and Refuse Mounds at Aztec West.” The reconstructed Great Kiva at Aztec West is sacrosanct to many different groups...
Since 2010 Yakanal has conducted eight cultural exchanges that took place in New Mexico including, Chaco Culture NHP and Aztec Ruins NM, as well as the Yucatan, Mexico and Guatemala. One of the projects...
This unique blanket made specifically for Chaco Culture Conservancy is on sale now for only $200. Go to our shopify store to purchase. Limited supply remaining.
After being closed for over a year, Western National Parks Association bookstores have reopened at both Chaco Culture National Historical Park and Aztec Ruins National Monument. Stop by and check our the great selection...
At the December CCC board meeting the parks’ management presented six projects for possible funding by the Conservancy. The projects cover a wide range of needs in both parks from providing an interpretive audio...
The Friends of Chaco is joining with our sister organization, The Friends of Aztec Ruins National Monument, to become Chaco Culture Conservancy. This new organization continues the mission of the founding organizations to assist...
The most recent gathering of youth participating in Yakanal brought them to Laguna Pueblo and Chaco to participate in a Media Training program that allowed the youth to edit their own footage taken during prior cultural exchange gatherings towards the development of a short video on the importance of water from cultural and preservation perspectives.
“Every time I’ve gone out there, another handful of drilling sites appear somewhere in the general vicinity,” said Steve Speth, longtime park astronomer and president of Friends of Chaco. “It’s really been kind of astounding.”
On summer solstice, Saturday, June 20th the Friends of Chaco sponsored the Kitzit Dancers from Laguna Pueblo who danced at Chaco Culture National Historical Park.
On summer solstice, Saturday, June 20th the Friends of Chaco will be sponsoring the Kitzit Dancers from Laguna Pueblo at Chaco Culture National Historical Park. There will be two sets of dances at 9:30 and 11:30 am
It’s the archaeological landscape beyond New Mexico’s Chaco Canyon that is most threatened.
The primary threat to Chaco Canyon in (Theodore) Roosevelt’s time was looting of archaeologically and culturally precious sites, said Horning. “Today the threat is oil and gas development and fracking in particular.”
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